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This is my new Chess set my wife bought for me, I love it!!!

I had to take some time off from chess and writing, I changed jobs and that took most of my free time and desire to do much of anything other than look for work. Now that I am re-employed I must continue getting better at chess.

We had a few tournaments here in the Florida Panhandle that last few weeks. I played in the event sponsored by the Destin chess club and then yesterday I played in the event sponsored by the Pensacola Club.

The event in Destin had a very low turnout, as it was an event we played out doors on a day when it was supposed to rain all day. Those of us who showed up (6) had a good time and we played a five round round robin instead of the four round Swiss. I was happy to get an extra round in as my rating is still provisional. 

The event in Pensacola was much larger; we had 18 players turn out with several players rated above 2100 and three more in the 1700-1900 rating. We had several players show up from NOLA, it was nice to see players making the trip. Hopefully our next tournament in Pensacola will break the 20s, dare I wish for 24 or 26 players.

I ended up getting 8 games in for the two weeks (I left early from Pensacola), however I went 0-8. The rust in my game has never been more apparent. I have not had much time to analyze all of the games but here is my first round game from the Pensacola tournament.

In this game I am playing a player who is rated just over 600 rating points higher than me, I was hoping to get into an even position and transfer to the end game with hopes of at least a draw. However, once I hung a pawn on move 6 the game went from bad to worse.

As always my analysis is done prior to using the computer and please leave a comment if you have something constructive to add.  Enjoy.

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Casey Jones - Michael

0-1, 2014.10.04.

[#] 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.g3 Bb4 4.Bg2 d6N This is a basic english opening I have been in this postion several times. My goal is to dominate the d5 square and go into a queenside attack.

[4...Nc6 5.Nd5 Bc5 6.e3 Nxd5 7.cxd5 Ne7 8.b4 Bd6 9.Bb2 ...1/2-1/2, Berkes Ferenc 2597 - Balogh Csaba 2561 , Szekesfehervar 3/ 9/2006 Ch Hungary;

4...c6 5.Nf3 d6 6.O-O O-O 7.d3 Re8 8.Qc2 h6 9.a3 ...1-0, Zhang Zhong 2598 - Delgado Neuris 2551 , Beer-Sheva 11/ 3/2005 Ch World (team);

4...O-O 5.Nf3 Re8 6.O-O h6 7.d3 c6 8.Bd2 d5 9.Nxd5 ...1-0, Yakovich Yuri 2551 - Volkov Sergey Viktorovich 2629 , Moscow 2/14/2006 It (open) "Aeroflot"]

5.e4 I always have an issue with this move, I want e4 in order to have another attacker on d5 but i need to tade fast or I lose the power the bishop on g2 has.

[5.Qa4 Nc6 6.Bxc6 bxc6 7.Qxb4 O-O 8.d3 c5 9.Qa5 Rb8 10.Nf3 Bh3 11.Rg1 h6 (0:00:43) 12934kN 4...d6 +1.75 Deep Rybka 2.3.2a x64]

5...Be6 6.Nge2 Bxc4 I completly missed it, not sure what I was thinking but as soon as i took my hand off of my knight I realized my mistake. 6. d4 would have been much better then I could have brought the knight to e2 to protect the other knight and keep the attack on d5. 7.d3 Be6 8.a3 Ba5 9.O-O O-O 10.h3 I don't like this move, I feel I should have went with Nd5, I would have slightly better than I was previously ofer Nxd5 fxd5 Bc8. The doubled pawns will be a weakness I will have to take care of though and I will have to do something the the Bishop on g2.

[10.d4 c6 11.Qc2 Nbd7 12.h3 g6 13.Rd1 Qe7 14.Bg5 Rac8 15.dxe5 dxe5 16.b4 (0:00:00) 203kN 9...O-O -0.41 Deep Rybka 2.3.2a x64]

10...Qd7 11.Kh2 h6 12.Rh1 Bb6 13.Be3 Nc6 14.Nb5 Bxe3 15.fxe3 Rad8 16.Rc1 a6 17.Nbd4 Nbc3 is the better move only has me down to -1.05 my move cost me an entire pawn in the evaluation.

[17.Nbc3 d5 18.exd5 Nxd5 19.Nxd5 Bxd5 20.Rc3 Ne7 (0:00:08) 3616kN 16...a6 -1.06 Deep Rybka 2.3.2a x64]

17...exd4 18.Nxd4 Nxd4 19.exd4 d5 I didn't see this in my calculations, looking at it now it seems obvious he has to stop the advance of the d pawn to save his dominating light squared bishop. 20.e5 Nh7 21.g4 f5 22.Rf1 fxg4 At this point I was lost on how to defend and to make a plan of attack. I cant see how to get to his bishop or queen and the battery is about to take me out. Although i did like some of the defesive moves I came up with, althought they did just prolong the defeat. 23.Rxf8 Rxf8 24.hxg4 Bxg4 25.Qh1 c6 26.Kg3 Qf5 27.Bh3 Qf4 28.Kh4 Qf2 [0-1]

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